iene ee The ‘Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAzeLTon, THE CENTER OF TIE Groat OMINEGA Districr oF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: GC: anada and British Possessions, Two Dollara.a year: Foreign, Three Dollars a year.. ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 15 cents per line for first insertion, 10 cents per line for each subsequent ingertion. Legal notices inserted at B. C, Gazette rates. Vo. II. No, 14, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1912. The Omineca Miner has tke largest bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. A non-partisan article in a recent review says that ‘‘much searching of hearts is going on among the leading statesmen at Ottawa on the question of Canadian aid for the British Navy. The Liberals are for a Canadian Navy to be confined mainly to Canad- ian waters, or to cruise merely for the pr otection of the coast and shipping of the Dominion. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who, like so many French Canadians, is a strict Nationalist, would hesitate even to place any Canadian war vessel at the disposal of the British Ad- miralty, Canada, he declares, is a nation, and its Navy must be national and nothing else. Mr. Robert Laird Borden, the present Premier, hag a totally different view. He believes that by contrib- uting dreadnoughts, built and manned in Canada, to the British fleet at Portsmouth, he is taking the safest and surest method of securing the defense of Canada against any possible foe, ‘for in time of peril the whole British fleet ig at her service, We know that ih ancient times, when the Mediterranean was controlled by Greece, the foreign possessions (foreign, at least, in those days) such as Crete, Samos, and other colonies, were expected to con- tribute toward the maintenance of the fleet which was built, man- ned, and handled by the metropolls, or mother country, and contribute they did. Mr. Borden, therefore, feels that he is sup- ported by historic precedent in a scheme which he thus unfolds: “It has been sugpested that instead of the organization of a Canadian naval force, there should be a system of annual contributions from this country to the mother country; and I am free to admit that, from the Strategical point of view, I!. would be inclined to agree with the view of the Admiralty that this would be the best way for the great self-governing domin- ions of the Empire to make their contributions. But, sir, from a constitutional and political standpoint, I am opposed to it, for] § many reasons. endure. It would bécome a bone of partizan contention,, contribution in both Parliaments, Empire, - *‘Permanent cooperation in defense, in -my opinion,, can only be accomplished by the use of our own material, the em- ployment of our own people, the development and utilization of our own skill and resourcefulness, and, above all, by ‘impres- sing upon the people a sense of responsibility. for their share in international affairs.” Pending the announcement of the government’s complete pro- gram we may judge Mr. Borden’s intentions from this utterance, ’ and expect a naval policy which will be consistent with the dignity of Canada and will fulfill in part her obligations to the Empire of which she is an important: member. Replying to a question in the| should be in a good state of cul-| | British house of eommons, tivation in order to obtain the Winston Churchill stated that| best crop of potatoes. New “Zealand had one battle|, 4 You perhaps know, the real : . Jetion f. food value of the potato lies us- cruiser pearing completion for! yaly within one-quarter or three- _ the royal navy; Australia one eighths of an inch of the outside, In the first place I do not believe that it would ; In the second place, it would be a aonree of friction. 1 It would be!j subject to criticism as to the character and the amount of the}: It would not be permanent! or continuous, It would conduce, if anything could conduce, |; to severing the present connection between Canada and _ the |; Polish nation must take active measures against Russia, says a special despatch from Waraaw, been many arrests of students and workmen: The managers of the Polish schools have been informed their institutions will be closed if the students attend church services commemorating the revolution. The suggestion of the princes of India that they pay for the construction of three Dread- naughts and nine armored cruis- ers for the British navy is wel- comed enthusiastically by the press of Great Britain. The gift, which would represent an expenditure of almost £24,000,- 000, is taken as a striking. evi- dence of the contentednéss of India under the British rule, eR ae a PR Rd Bd PR SMe es Fg 9H “3 } New Hazelton Hotel } i . Open for Business © All Furnishings New EUROPEAN PLAN Rates: Rooms $1.00 Beis 50c | _ Geo, C, Hartley, Proprietor “New Hazelton setts ernest S Mines and Mining Good Properties for aale —- Gash or on Bond. Development and Assessment Work, . Carr Brothers Six Years In This District, Hazelton, bh C. “Skeena Laundty Lee Jackman, Prop. | Our Work is Good and our Rates & Reasonable. Baths In Connection Call and see us. 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Store Slinger & Ayerde of 1880 by declaring that thel Troops patrol the cily, the de-| spatch continues, and there have||t she shesteotartrehecte rete seek): Telegraph office, a q battle cruiser and two second- class protected cruisers nearing _ completion, one second-class pro- tected cruiser building, three de- stroyers in commission and. two submarines building, all for the Royal Australian navy: South Africa had none; the Niobe and and the Rainbow had been pur- “ghased by Canada, and the Malay States had one armored ship for the royal havy on offer, and this offer had been accepted. |- - Zo None of the vessels affected the new construction already an- - nounced, _ Hollowness in potatoes may be the resultof many causes. Round potatoes have a greater tendency * to became hollow than the kid- ney shape or oval potatoes. For market purposes the latter shapes are preferable. . Hollow potatdes may be the re- sult of unusually rapid growth, which in turn is probably caused by an excessive amount of avail: able nitrogen. Thisis very likely the result of the application of _ too much fresh manure, or the using of a fertilizer which has ‘a high nitrogen content, The use of too much stable manure is also apt: to cause, seabby potatoes. some 90 per cent of the insida of 5 ithe potato being composed of “—e water: Where the potato grows| j 2:7 LeRoy 4. Nation. very rapidly, the large amount lant of water in the center causes the ‘ Hotel Winters tissues to become broken down, . Cor. 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